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In Why Don't We Do It In The Road? the author looks back to the 1960s and the global phenomenon surrounding four young men from Liverpool ...The names and the songs are well known, but the "why?" is more difficult to locate - even with hindsight - against the glare of the music industry's powerful, myth-making apparatus...John Astley deploys his forensic skills as a sociologist of culture to develop an original take on the kaleidoscopic landscape that gave birth to The Beatles phenomenon ...The reader is invited to take a peep back into the recent past - at the post-War years in England's Liverpool...the trembling class structure of an exhausted society...the advent of "youth" as a demographic force - and the explosion of electronic music in the 1960s as British culture is unmade and remade..."Why Don't We Do It In The Road?" is a question that has gone unanswered for four decades - that is, until now ...
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The book takes an entirely new look at The Beatles phenomenon from a popluar culture/social sciences perspective. The author is a sociologist of culture.
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In Why Don't We Do It In The Road? the author looks back to the 1960s and the global phenomenon surrounding four young men from Liverpool ...The names and the songs are well known, but the "why?" is more difficult to locate - even with hindsight - against the glare of the music industry's powerful, myth-making apparatus...John Astley deploys his forensic skills as a sociologist of culture to develop an original take on the kaleidoscopic landscape that gave birth to The Beatles phenomenon ...The reader is invited to take a peep back into the recent past - at the post-War years in England's Liverpool...the trembling class structure of an exhausted society...the advent of "youth" as a demographic force - and the explosion of electronic music in the 1960s as British culture is unmade and remade..."Why Don't We Do It In The Road?" is a question that has gone unanswered for four decades - that is, until now ...
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The book takes an entirely new look at The Beatles phenomenon from a popluar culture/social sciences perspective. The author is a sociologist of culture.
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